ABSTRACT
David Copperfield is written by Charles Dickens, who is the greatest representative of English critical realism in the nineteenth century. David Copperfield is one of Dickens’s favorite novels, which is based on writer’s own life experience, and it is known all over the world for the well-portrayed characters. In David Copperfield, dozens of women characters are portrayed ranging from rich women to poor servants. This paper analyzes two main women characters—Agnes and Dora, through which Dickens reveals his attitude towards marriage, that is a couple should understand each other deeply to avoid the blindness of love.
Keywords：women characters; love; family, marriage
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. The brief introduction to David Copperfield 2
2.1. The context of the book 2
2.2. The relation between Agnes and Dora 3
2.3. The prototype of Agnes and Dora 5
3. The comparison of Agnes and Dora’s character 8
3.1. The similarity of their characters 8
3.2. The difference of their characters 8
3.3. The reasons of the different characters 9
4. The influences of different character to themselves and David 11
4.1. The comparison of living of Agnes and Dora after marriage 11
4.2. Analyze the two kinds of marriage 11
4.3. David’s feeling about his two wives 12
5. Conclusion 13
Acknowledgements 14
References 15
